Celebrating a love of all things reading and writing
I'm so excited to participate in my first Book Tour with TBR And Beyond Tours and to help spread the word about this wonderful book! Book Info: Daisy Woodworm Changes the World by Melissa Hart Genre: Middle Grade Contemporary Publishing Date: November 8, 2022 Synopsis: When her social studies teacher assigns each student a project... Continue Reading →
Top Five Wednesday is a goodreads group that posts weekly top five lists based on bookish prompts. This week's prompt: November 9th: Award-Winning Did you know this week is National Book Awards Week? Let’s feature titles that won awards and why we want to spotlight them! I don't pay as much attention to awards for... Continue Reading →
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly post hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where people like me who love lists and books can share our thoughts on fun bookish topics. This week's Topic: November 8: Series I’d Like to Start/Catch up on/Finish I love series, but I rarely read them all at once. There are so... Continue Reading →
This weekend was the Rochester Children's Book Festival was this weekend. I've attended in the past, but this was my first year as a volunteer. My job was to be an "author escort", which means I got to take authors from their table to presentations. It was so much fun getting to meet the authors.... Continue Reading →
Synopisis: When her tribe leaves the island, Karana is left behind. For years she survives on the island alone with nothing but the animals as company. Based loosely on the story of a real woman who survived on San Nicolas Island for eighteen years. My thoughts: This is a favorite from childhood (which is why... Continue Reading →
Top 5 Wednesday is a Goodreads group that responds to weekly bookish prompts. November 2nd: Characters Who Need a Break There are always those bookish characters who seem to be on edge all the time. Sort of makes you wish they could realize they need to take a break, right? In honor of National Stress... Continue Reading →
November means NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). For those unfamiliar, NaNoWriMo is an event where writers commit to writing 1,667 words daily, resulting in completing a 50,000-word novel in a month. I am not writing a book this month. I have participated in the July challenge before, but it's not very practical while teaching full-time.... Continue Reading →
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly post hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where people like me who love lists and books can share our thoughts on fun bookish topics. This week's topic: November 1: Unlikable Characters You Can’t Help but Love (These are villains, criminals, jerks, etc. that make you fall in love with them... Continue Reading →
Words matter, in fact. They're not pointless, as you've suggested. If they were pointless, then they couldn't start revolutions and they wouldn't change history. If they were just words, we wouldn't write songs or listen to them. We wouldn't beg to be read to as kids. If they were just words, then stories wouldn't have... Continue Reading →
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